500002 - Existing tab is overwritten when opening new message from new message notification balloon link, should open in new tab

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Andrea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090616 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9.1b5pre) Gecko/20090509 Shredder/3.0b3pre

The content of a tab is overwritten when you open a new message from the link that appears in the balloon that pops up from the tray bar, and the content of the new mail message is shown there instead.
Worse still, the tab title doesn't change, so if you were reading mail A, after openin the newly arrived mail B from the balloon link, now mail B is displayed in the tab where A was previously displayed, but the tab title remains "mail A"

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Confirmed here on 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090624 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre ID:20090624103943

STP:
1. open a message in a tab (call this messageA);
2. if new message arrive (call this messageB), click it on ballon on that pops up from the tray bar;
3. the messageB clicked is displayed on the open tab where was displayed messageA.

It is deliberate?

Comment 2

[Andrea]

Aureliano, can you please tell what the tab title is?
Does it remain the one of messageA or does it update to messageB?

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

tab content is updated and also tab tible (is update to messageB).

Comment 4

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

I expect this was fixed by bug 467768... can you please check if the problem still happens?

Comment 5

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I expect this was fixed by bug 467768... can you please check if the problem
> still happens?

Here on 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090715 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre ID:20090715031648

I have two different situation:
1.If I have only one message open in new tab, clicking on ballon on new message arrive, the tab is closed;
2. If I have 2 tabs open, clicking on ballon on new messages, the tab that have focus is updated with new message clicked.

It is deliberate?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Is this issue still seen?
(I'm having trouble with notification so can't test it well)

Comment 7

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Here with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110305 Thunderbird/3.3a3pre: with 2 tabs message open and focus on 2 tab, clicking on ballon move focus to tab0 (tab with folders pane): it seems that has changed behavior but don't work as expected (if by default is open message in new tab, click on balloon should be open new tab)

Comment 9

[dreadnaut]

As of Thunderbird 15.0.1, this bug is still present.

One possible "more expected" behaviour could be to highlight the new message in the main, unclosable tab, rather than in the focused tab. All other tabs are usually open on purpose, and should not switch to a different directory* unless in response to a direct action.

[*] Actually, slightly unrelated to this bug maybe, folders open in tabs should probably have their folder tree hidden, as the most likely use case is "the user wants to focus on a single directory."